Alert archive / Texas / Flash Flood Warnings in 1991
Flash Flood Warning 30, NWS Fort Worth, TX
NWS Fort Worth, TX issued this flash flood warning at May 3, 1991, 5:52 PM CDT for Young County, Texas. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 3, 1991, 5:52 PM CDT (22:52 UTC)
- Expired
- May 3, 1991, 10:00 PM CDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Fort Worth, TX
- Area
- Whole counties
County Young County, TX
The nearest sounding before it
Stephenville/Cla, TX (KSEP), launched 12:00Z, 10.9 hours before the alert went out and 120 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 2305 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -106 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 718 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 257 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 236 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.9
- Supercell composite
- 13.9
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Local storm report, May 3, 1:00 PM CDT, 4 hours 52 minutes before
STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX
100 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991
...SUPPLEMENTAL NORTH TEXAS STORM REPORTS FOR MAY 3 1991...
TIME OF
OCCURRENCE COUNTY EVENT
440 AM CDT CAMP 60+ MPH WINDS BROKE NUMEROUS TREE LIMBS
AND DOWNED SOME TREES IN EASTERN OF
COUNTY BY LAKE OF THE PINES.
440 AM CDT UPSHUR A FEW LARGE LIMBS BROKEN...60 MPH WINDS
IN EXTREME NORTHEAST PART OF COUNTY NEAR
LAKE OF THE PINES.
520 AM CDT UPSHUR BRIDGE WASHED OUT IN NORTHWEST PART OF
COUNTY. TREES DOWN ALONG FM 1844 AND
FM 259 IN SOUTHEAST PART OF COUNTY.Special weather statement, May 3, 2:44 PM CDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
TXZ021>033-025-032100- SPECIAL WEATHER AND FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORT WORTH TX 245 PM CDT FRI MAY 3 1991 AT 235 PM...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY CONTINUING OVER NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. SCATTERED LIGHT SHOWERS WERE IN THE DFW METROPLEX AREA. STRONGER ACTIVITY WAS LOCATED FROM WACO TO KILLEEN TO LAMPASAS AND NORTH TO STEPHENVILLE. THIS WAS A NEARLY SOLID AREA OF ACTIVITY...THE STRONGEST WAS BETWEEN KILLEEN AND WACO. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX WAS NOTED IN SOUTHEAST JACK COUNTY ALSO MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. PEOPLE IN WESTERN WISE COUNTY SHOULD STAY ALERT AS THIS STORM APPROACHES. IN NORTHEAST TEXAS...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE BETWEEN PARIS AND TYLER. ALSO...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS IN NORTHERN HOUSTON COUNTY TO THE WEST OF LUFKIN. MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY IS LIKELY TO HAVE HEAVY RAIN...HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...AND DANGEROUS LIGHTNING. A TORNADO WATCH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM CDT FOR MOST OF NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS. THE WATCH AREA IS SOUTH OF A LINE FROM WICHITA FALLS TO PARIS AND INCLUDES THE METROPLEX AREA...WACO...BROWNWOOD...AND TEMPLE. A FLASH FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR NORTH TEXAS...FOR TODAY AND TONIGHT...EAST OF A LINE FROM SHERMAN TO HAMILTON TO SAN SABA. THE DFW METROPLEX...WACO...PARIS...LONGVIEW...AND LUFKIN ARE INCLUDED IN THE WATCH AREA. ADDITIONAL RAIN IN THE WATCH AREA WILL POSE A DANGER OF FLASH FLOODING. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...LOCAL RADIO...OR TELEVISION FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON TODAY'S WEATHER.
Local storm report, May 3, 5:31 PM CDT, 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Fort Worth, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 7:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 59 min |
| May 3, 1:12 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Tarrant | 63 min |
| May 3, 1:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Collin, Fannin, Hunt | 55 min |
| May 3, 1:46 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Dallas | 44 min |
| May 3, 2:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Lamar, Red River | 53 min |
| May 3, 2:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Red River | 53 min |
| May 3, 3:53 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Camp, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood | 67 min |
| May 3, 5:04 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Smith, Upshur | 41 min |
| May 3, 5:52 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Smith | 53 min |
| May 3, 12:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell, Coryell | 66 min |
| May 3, 1:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack, Young | 64 min |
| May 3, 1:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coryell, McLennan | 57 min |
| May 3, 1:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 66 min |
| May 3, 2:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Bell | 4 hr |
| May 3, 2:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Coleman | 56 min |
| May 3, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Jack | 68 min |
| May 3, 2:33 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | McLennan | 3 hr |
| May 3, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan, Taylor | 62 min |
| May 3, 2:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Falls | 59 min |
| May 3, 2:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 56 min |
| May 3, 2:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Palo Pinto | 54 min |
| May 3, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FWD | Coleman | 64 min |
| May 3, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 59 min |
| May 3, 3:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Callahan | 64 min |
| May 3, 3:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Bell | 63 min |
| May 3, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Limestone, Robertson | 58 min |
| May 3, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 42 min |
| May 3, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Brown | 69 min |
| May 3, 4:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Leon | 61 min |
| May 3, 4:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 68 min |
| May 3, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Young | 65 min |
| May 3, 4:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Freestone | 63 min |
| May 3, 5:02 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Young | 4 hr |
| May 3, 5:08 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Camp, Morris, Titus | 3 hr |
| May 3, 5:24 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FWD | Stephens | 3 hr |
| May 3, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Stephens | 61 min |
| May 3, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FWD | Anderson | 65 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.